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#1
04-12-2007, 12:58 AM
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Kurt Vonnegut Dead
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/bo...erland&emc=rss
You may have enjoyed some of his books. I haven't really read any, except for Breakfast of Champions.
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04-12-2007, 01:11 AM
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Re: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
I read an interesting short story by him, where one captain's family and platoon is held captive, and their freedom can be won with a chess match, only all the pieces on the chessboard are his family and soldiers, and if they are taken on the chess board, they are killed.
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#3
04-12-2007, 01:24 AM
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Re: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
vinny- yeah I read that in one of his collections, Welcome To The Monkey House. The short story of the same title is really something worth checking out.
That's really a shame though, there goes one of the best contemporary American writers.
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04-12-2007, 01:55 AM
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Re: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
"God Bless You Mr. Rosewater" What a great book. "We don't piss in your ashtrays, so please don't throw cigarette butts in our urinals."
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04-12-2007, 08:22 AM
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Re: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
R.i.p.
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04-23-2007, 04:50 PM
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Re: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
Slaughterhouse Five Rules!
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04-28-2007, 01:07 PM
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Re: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
I never read any of his books, but I saw Empire of the Sun, a Spielberg movie he wrote. It was semi - autobiographical, IMO a powerful and disturbing film.
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04-30-2007, 07:39 PM
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Re: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
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Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five was made into a movie back in the golden years, directed by George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy, The Sting). You should certainly see it if you can find it.
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04-30-2007, 10:33 PM
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Re: Kurt Vonnegut Dead
Quote:
 Your right................ I got Ballard's and Vonnegut's war stories confused.
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